[...]... second edition I have discussed Fourier transformation, relating first to radiofrequency and then to higher frequency radiation In the first edition of Modern Spectroscopy I tried to go some way towards bridging the gulf that often seems to exist between high resolution spectroscopy and low resolution, often analytical, spectroscopy In this edition I have gone further by including X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. .. accuracy New books on spectroscopy continue to be published while some of the older ones remain classics The bibliography has been brought up to date to include some of the new publications, or new editions of older ones I have not included in the bibliography my own books on spectroscopy High Resolution Spectroscopy, second edition (John Wiley, 1998) follows the general format of Modern Spectroscopy but... fluorescence Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) Cavity ring-down spectroscopy Femtosecond spectroscopy Spectroscopy of molecules in supersonic jets 9.3.11.1 Properties of a supersonic jet 9.3.11.2 Fluorescence excitation spectroscopy 9.3.11.3 Single vibronic level, or dispersed, fluorescence spectroscopy 9.3.11.4 Zero kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy Exercises Bibliography 400 402 404 405 CONTENTS... 4.135 6.241 1 1:036 84 6 1074 67 6 1079 51 6 1021 43 Â 10À2 kJ mol71 1.196 27 6 1072 3.990 31 6 1077 6.022 14 6 1023 96.485 1 MODERN SPECTROSCOPY Fourth Edition J Michael Hollas University of Reading 1 Some Important Results in Quantum Mechanics 1.1 Spectroscopy and quantum mechanics Spectroscopy is basically an experimental subject and is concerned with the absorption, emission or scattering of electromagnetic... electron spectroscopy, and extended X-ray absorption fine structure, including applications to studies of solid surfaces, and, in Chapter 9, the theory and some examples of lasers and some of their uses in spectroscopy Most of the material in these two chapters will not be found in comparable texts but is of very great importance in spectroscopy today xiii xiv PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION My understanding of spectroscopy. .. The carbon dioxide laser The dye lasers Laser materials in general 9.3 Uses of lasers in spectroscopy 9.3.1 9.3.2 9.3.3 9.3.4 9.3.5 9.3.6 9.3.7 9.3.8 9.3.9 9.3.10 9.3.11 Hyper Raman spectroscopy Stimulated Raman spectroscopy Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy Laser Stark (or laser electron resonance) spectroscopy Two-photon and multiphoton absorption Multiphoton dissociation and laser... can be operated in a CW or pulsed mode Laser spectroscopy is such a wide subject, with many ingenious experiments using one or two CW or pulsed lasers to study atomic or molecular structure or dynamics, that it is difficult to do justice to it at the level at which Modern Spectroscopy is aimed In this edition I have expanded the section on supersonic jet spectroscopy, which is an extremely important... of seven years since the third edition, there have been either new developments or consolidation of rather less recent ones, which are not only of the greatest importance but which can (I hope!) be communicated at this level New to the fourth edition are the topics of laser detection and ranging (LIDAR), cavity ring-down spectroscopy, femtosecond lasers and femtosecond spectroscopy, and the use of laser-induced... Atoms and Molecules 429 Subject Index 439 Preface to first edition Modern Spectroscopy has been written to fulfil a need for an up-to-date text on spectroscopy It is aimed primarily at a typical undergraduate audience in chemistry, chemical physics, or physics in the United Kingdom and at undergraduate and graduate student audiences elsewhere Spectroscopy covers a very wide area which has been widened... 1998) follows the general format of Modern Spectroscopy but takes the subject to the research level Basic Atomic and Molecular xix xx PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION Spectroscopy (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2002) approaches the subject at a simpler level than Modern Spectroscopy, being fairly non-mathematical and including many worked problems Neither book is included in the bibliography but each is recommended .